Please excuse the mess while we recover our website. Some content may be a bit missing or a bit out of date at the moment, but we'll do our best to chase down the gremlins.

Thanks for your patience. Racing continues as normal at UBC on August 4.

And while I have your attention, Here's some policy about stuff that annoys the race organizers, or the racers, or whatever.

Warming up: not on the race course

At both UBC and Burnaby, warming up on the course is forbidden. This means you, later-start riders warming up during early races. At Glenlyon, it is permissible to warm up opposite the course (on the other side of the road, that is), but do not expect the traffic control crew to stop cars for you. At UBC, we expect you to avoid Stadium Road except as needed to get to registration, and with extreme deference to any packs (in other words, if they're approaching from behind you, get off the road).

What's that you say? 2015 Spring Series dates are ready, and it's not even Hanukkah yet? It's an Advent Miracle!

The Spring Series, Canada's most overly-competitive Equinox-straddling road racing series, is back in the Fraser Valley for another great year.

We've decided to make it more trying by adding time trials: four of them, on select Sundays, after the road race is done. We hope new racers especially will take the chance to use these TTs as a gentle introduction to the sport. You can enter the road race or the TT, but if you make it a Combo of Suffering, the TT costs only $10 extra!

We also have dates and deets for our DEVO Stage Race. EV Cares, so this year's race will feature less gravel and more sunshine. The new race dates are May 9 & 10, which our crack astrologers assure us is nowhere near Winter. Dress accordingly.

DEVO, based in Vancouver is looking for a head coach for our u17/u19 road program. The right individual must have a passion for coaching youth and road racing and able to meet the challenge of continuing to develop a first rate youth cycling program.

The successful candidate will have NCCP coaching certification or be working towards certification and be a self-starter with experience in developing ride and skill development plans. Mentoring with the current coach Jesse Reams will be available until Jesse’s planned relocation in the Spring.

1. U17/U19 program planning, coaching and coordination
The Coach will develop, plan and implement an annual development program which utilizes Escape Velocity’s administrative and material support and has the following characteristics:

EV/DEVO pb Catalyst Kinetics continues a tradition begun by the late Lorne Bodin: the EV Annual Toy Ride supporting the Lower Mainland Christmas Bureau. Tell all your friends to come out to join us and donate to help bring a bit of holiday cheer to disadvantaged families in the Lower Mainland.

The moderate-pace ride around the UBC-Richmond loop departs Musette Caffe at 9 AM.

[We interrupt our regularly scheduled CX race promotion to talk to you about governance issues within Cycling BC. We regret the inconvenience, and will have more donkey pictures soon, but seriously, this is important.]

The board of Cycling BC (CBC) has proposed substantial bylaw revisions to be voted on this weekend that include a redefinition of membership. Their proposal abolishes individual voting rights and replaces members with three categories of voters: 1) CBC board members, 2) clubs, and 3) committee members appointed (and dismissed) by the board.

While other parts of the bylaws, like electronic voting, are a welcome improvement, the proposed membership structure has been deemed unacceptable by some members in BC. Escape Velocity Cycling Club’s (EV) board of directors have proposed an amendment to the CBC board’s bylaw proposal that keeps the improvements, but fixes the problems.